“And the twelve millions?” he asked. “What has become of them?
Do you suppose they have been distributed in deeds of charity?”
And without waiting for any further objections,
“And yet,” he went on, “it is not with money alone that a man can
be induced to disgrace himself, to confess himself a thief and a
forger, to brave the galleys, to give up everything,--country,
family, friends. Evidently the Baron de Thaller must have had
other means of action, some hold on Favoral--”